Venom 
at 21k points!
The highlights IMO:
Punisher 
at 6k
5 CP at 7500
Heroic at 9k
Punisher
at 12k
5 CP at 13.5k
50 HP at 15k
50 HP at 18k
Venom at 21k
event token at 27k
15 CP at 36k
While I’m certainly glad there’s progression awards, the placement awards still stink.
I though everyone wanted to get rid of placement rewards entirely?
That being said, the placement covers “stink”. The placement ISO has been more than doubled.
the 4 star placement was an imrovement on the already not great offerings, they’ve been sapped up to the top 5 exclusively, changed from 1 for top 10 2 for top 5 and 3 for #1(i think top 2), to now being
3 cover for 1 and 2 covers for top 5.
Competition also may be much higher than before as brackets won’t fill as quickly, so sadly flunking out of crappy awards intentionally (you can bet I won’t even be taking placement cho) won’t make a difference in brackets.
I guess this is RIP noob brackets., which were usually noob + thoe 4 over ambitious people with 5 star champs who grind everything to death and make you wonder why they even tanked the last few events if they were going to grind as hard anyway.
Gonna be honest, if you ask me to choose whether progression or placement get improved, I’m going to choose progression every time. Anybody angling for top placement will get the improved progression rewards along the way, but those of us who don’t finish T10 are never going to benefit from improved rewards for T10 or T20.
Am I missing something or didn’t the top progression used to be 25cp? I don’t play pve much but I could have sworn it was
It was, but now that progression is broken out in the progression rewards - 5cp + 5cp +15cp = 25CP. Plus the 4* Cover.
So basically, top 10 gets the same amount of covers, just one of the 4 stars is progression instead of placement. Top 50, same thing (one progression cover instead of the the third placement cover). 51-100 loses one cover (since that gives out tokens instead of a single cover). 101-200 stays the same, cover wise. Anyone below that probably wasn’t hitting max progression in the first place.
Total CP is still at 25 just more distribution, always nice.
Now the prog ISO has almost doubled…which is a huge boost to the players. That alone makes me happy.
All in all, cl7 appears to be a net benefit for all casual players (vets included)
Nice! There aren’t enough free hours in my day to compete for anything past about top 50 so 4* in Story mode progression is awesome. I’m very happy with this.
Just like the tests before, none of it really makes much of a difference until a new character is introduced. How they handle that will determine just how much better or worse this new system really is.
At a first glance, I don’t like it - but as many times as I’ve told myself “this could make me walk away from the game,” I adapt, and most others will too. Of course, I didn’t have another game taking my attention away from MPQ until recently…
Ok thought I missed something thanks
It’s more or less the same, the 3rd cover is actually in the next event.
Not in the same event. 3 covers out of 13 for someone is a big deal.
2 can be gotten from top 5, and the 3rd from progression in the next event where it will be required.
So it’s not horrible. Not ideal, but not horrible.
I likely won’t be seeing placement rewards anytime soon, so the 1 cover per event for sure will be nice.
Bit of a shame they relegated the placement rewards of a specific cover to top 50. Top 100 means a 74% chance of a random 2* in clearance 7.
I guess the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. I’m certainly not going to complain about them putting the required 4* as a progression reward, no sirree.
Why is the progression cover the same garbage character as the gauntlet progression cover???
Because that’s how it always is. It’s the schedule. Next event hb will be progression.
The way I see it in terms of covers, everyone who reaches progression gets a 4* cover, not just the top 10, although you will be getting it only in the next event. Top 5 gets one extra cover. So a slight net increase in covers distributed overall, just via outside of placement.
I’ve been a top 10-20 player for a while, but I don’t usually bother to fight for top 5. This change makes me even less enthusiastic to compete for top 5. Which is probably good for my long term health I suppose.
If this is a step towards moving all value to progression and away from placement in PvE, I’m all for it.
I wonder if there’s a way to predict which HB it’ll be. I won’t complain either way because all three powers can use covers, but I do wonder.